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Gordonville, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Hubble Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63701. The Survey maps it on the Gordonville quadrangle. 625 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

Gordonville within Cape Girardeau County

On record in Gordonville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Gordonville grew from 391 to 625 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010391
2020625+234 (+60%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Gordonville between 1996 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179144-01617-09162019-1108
16 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179194-01617-09162019-1108
11 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230867-01617-09112020-1605
30 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177850-01617-08302018-1337
4 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 July 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cape Girardeau County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Gordonville: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
English Clay PitsClayPast Producer
Kasten Clay Products Pit & PlantClayProducer
Unknown ClayClayPast Producer
Arnold Geisler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jackson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kestarson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cape Girardeau County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gordonville in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2024Thunderstorm WindGordonville$100,000A microburst with estimated peak winds of 85 mph caused sporadic wind damage on the west side of Cape Girardeau, MO, during the early morning hours of April 2, 2024. Dozens of trees were uprooted or suffered damage to large tree limbs. A few homes also had shingle, siding, or facia damage. One home on W Highland Dr had more than half of the roof removed while a home on Woodbine Pl suffered roof damage after a tree fell on it. The microburst started just east of the path of an EF-0 tornado along County Road 318. Crossing over Interstate 55, damage continued into the west side of Cape Girardeau. The microburst was about 3.25 miles long and about 400 yards in width for the main damage swath, with isolated tree damage to the north.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindGordonville$45,000On Route D north of Jackson, a large portion of roof was blown off a home, a metal carport was blown away, and a portion of a fence was blown down. Rainwater damaged the kitchen, laundry, and master bath. Elsewhere in the county, power lines were down near Gordonville. Several sheets of tin were wrapped around a tree in Fruitland. Shingles were blown off a home near Route K.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindGordonville$25,000Thunderstorm winds were estimated near 70 MPH at Gordonville. Elsewhere in Cape Girardeau County, a roof was blown off a house at the intersection of County Road 473 and 472. Numerous trees and power lines were down on County Roads 206, 203, and 214.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindGordonville$25,000no account filed
March 2009Thunderstorm WindGordonville$15,000A barn collapsed and was destroyed. A cow inside was killed, and several others were injured.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGordonville$6,000The roof was blown off a barn. Several trees were blown down.
April 2024Tornado (EF0)Gordonville$5,000A brief EF-0 tornado uprooted a few trees and downed several large tree limbs along County Rd 319 in central Cape Girardeau County during the early morning hours. The tornadic circulation quickly diminished as the storm moved east, but continued to produce sporadic straight line wind damage as it moved east-southeast into the west side of Cape Girardeau. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindGordonville$2,000Large tree limbs were blown down.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindGordonville$1,000Straight-line thunderstorm winds blew down a large portion of a tree north of Gordonville.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindGordonville$500Trees and power lines were blown down in the Jackson and Gordonville areas. This storm later produced 0.75-inch diameter hail near the intersection of County Roads F and OO.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindGordonville-Lots of tree damage was reported along Highway 25 from Gordonville to Jackson.
March 2018HailGordonville-no account filed
April 2017HailGordonville-no account filed
April 2002HailGordonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cape Girardeau County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tilsit3.6 miles19
Houck3.7 miles19
Dutchtown4.2 miles19
Cedar Cliffs4.8 miles20
Jackson5.0 miles19
Nash6.0 miles21
Blomeyer6.1 miles20
Elmwood (historical)6.6 miles21

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on GordonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2178428The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 731575. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.